Awesome Animation

Created by Weta Digital CG animator Marco Spitoni, this teaser gives us a glimpse into his short fan film based on the Half-Life series. No actual Striders were harmed in the making of this film.

Studio Ghibli and Level 5 might have a masterpiece here. Never in our wildest dreams did we think we’d someday have what amounts to an interactive Ghibli film. International release please!

When we first hit ‘Play’ on this video, we thought it was one of those awful commercials for Mucinex. But 40 seconds in, we realized we were in for a real treat, and some awesome animation.

H.P. Lovecraft and Old Spice. Like chocolate and peanut butter – two great tastes that taste great together. Er, more like two completely random ideas that somehow work together. Join the cult.

Created by the The Triplets of Belleville animators, The Illusionist tells the tale of a magician struggling to compete with more modern entertainers, who then meets a girl who thinks that his tricks are real.

If you don’t have the time to read – or wait for the upcoming Hobbit movies – the dudes from Brothers Grim and Grimy explain the little barefoot dude’s story in 1:55 flat. Dude. Did Hurley write this?

A short film by Ken Turner worth watching over and over. TiM is without question a work of metafiction, a Tim Burton-style stop motion about a boy whose ambition is to become like Tim Burton.

Daniel L. Smith’s short film won “Best Animation” from the Star Wars Fan Film Movie Challenge, and rightly so. We guarantee you’ll love the ending. Shame that it’s in anaglyphic 3D.

We often assume Pixar can do no wrong, but every once in a while they get all human on us and fail. newt was in the works for a while, and never made it to the screen. More concept art here.

The animators at Yum Yum London created this short film which starts out with a simple enough premise, but comes with a highly unexpected ending. Good for a laugh when you need one.

Whether you’re into Supreme Beings or Darwin, this light-hearted 8-bit style animation by Marieke Ottrand is meant to entertain. We don’t remember this game on our Atari 2600s.

Just because there’s a giant washing machine robot hovering over crowds of screaming masses running from flaming buildings doesn’t mean that it necessarily means them harm… or does it?

This side-scrolling beat-em-up finally hit XBLA and PSN, and it’s well worth the wait. Tons of weapons, local co-op mode, great looks and a story from the writer of God of War add up to a great game.

Taiwan’s NMA World Edition has been rockin’ the interwebs with their brilliant animated recreations of news events. This time, Sergey and Larry take the wraps off their plans for global domination.

Sumo Science created these short films in which ordinary objects take on each other in a fight to the death. Our favorite moment – when the Walkman stabs the vacuum to get his own guts back.

The Brothers Grim and Grimy explain the dark world of H.P. Lovecraft in under 2 minutes, with cartoony animations and an inappropriate narrator. At least we now know how to pronounce Cthulhu.

We’re not sure if this is a one-shot or a pilot episode for a series, but either way it’s worth watching. Gluko & Lennon is a funny animated short with a quirky and beautiful art style.

We first got a peek at Gatchaman all the way back in 2008. Now it looks like the CGI Japanimation flick is finally nearing release. In this clip, the protagonists go up against a giant mecha-bug.

We can hardly believe it ourselves, but these beautiful animated scenes – reminiscent of the backgrounds in old LucasArts adventures – were entirely coded in HTML5 using 8-bit color cycling.

After 3 years of meticulous production time, this haunting CG animated film about the beauty and mystery of nature has finally seen the light of day. And yes, it’s that Whoopi Goldberg as the red head.

An animated short made by Lisa Allen, Bernie Warman and Shaofu Zhang of the Academy of Art University as their thesis. It’s a bit too predictable for our taste, but it’s fun to watch nonetheless.

In Tom Judd’s animated short film, we get to see how modern technology will eventually lead us to our own desktop genetic engineering, allowing us to make our very own mini action heroes.

We’re not sure exactly how animator Surfap managed to get this speed-run through the classic NES platformer seamlessly layered onto this wall and ground, but we like Super Concrete Mario.